Louisiana Congress map blocked from diluting black voting rights

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Louisiana’s request to enforce its long-standing congressional redivision map, Republicans In the state, it is ruled that this constitutes an unconstitutional racial mixed race.

All three judges on the bench voted for the lower court’s ruling, the map in question – originally passed by Louisiana’s Republican majority legislature in 2022 – violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by diluting the votes of black residents in the state.

They also confirmed the District Court’s ruling that the map in question violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, “will package ‘black voters into minority black areas and ‘crack’ other black communities in multiple areas within the scope, thus depriving them of the opportunity to form an effective voting set.”

The judge on the panel Rejected the national debate Conditions in Louisiana have changed enough to make people aware that the therapy for the game is outdated.

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“There is no legal basis for this claim and there is no evidence that the conditions in Louisiana have changed,” the court said in its ruling.

A judge on the panel issued a stay ahead of the court’s ruling, although the issue is a controversial issue because Supreme CourtThe map is also being reviewed, which has been done earlier this year.

The Fifth Circuit’s ruling was in the reputation of a more conservative court of appeals, a victory for the ACLU and other plaintiffs filed to prevent the state’s map from invalidating.

Nevertheless, any relief to the plaintiff in the Court of Appeal’s ruling could be short-lived.

The Supreme Court heard a verbal debate in Louisiana v. Callais in March, which also focused on the legality of Louisiana’s redistricting of maps and whether race should be considered as a factor in mapping the new congressional district.

Then, the focus of the oral debate is whether Louisiana’s reallocation effort Being tailored is narrow enough to meet constitutional requirements and whether race is used in a way that violates the law.

The Supreme Court said in June that it would hear other arguments in the case during the fall, citing more information needed before the ruling was issued.

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Earlier this month, the Justice ordered both sides to submit a supplemental summary by mid-September, outlining a further detailed overview of the proposed map of Louisiana and whether the intention to create a second majority congressional district “violated the Fourteenth or Fifty-fifth Amendment.”

The careful consideration of the Supreme Court is the most obvious sign that the redistricting issue remains the most important in the 2026 midterm elections and beyond.

It’s also a critical period in the United States, as new and politically full of rezoning battles have emerged in other states ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

Louisiana has revised its Congressional map twice since the 2020 census.

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The first version includes only one majority black district and was blocked by federal court in 2022. The court supported the Louisiana meeting of NAACP and other plaintiffs, ruled that the map diluted black voting rights and ordered the state to repeat it by January 2024.

New Map SB 8 creates a second black majority zone. But this was almost immediately challenged by a group of non-Black plaintiffs in court, who were challenged with a new district that stretched 250 miles from the northwest corner of Shreveport, Louisiana to Baton Rouge, southeast of the state.

They argued in the lawsuit that the state violated the equal protection clause by relying too much on race to map and create a “curved and jagged second majority black district.”

In Louisiana, a strong court struggle highlights a wider redistribution battle in states led by Republican and Democratic states across the country as they seized on the new Congressional map with a focus on the looming midterm elections.

In Texas, in Democratic state lawmakers fled the Lone Star state to stop Texas Gov. Greg Abbott from convening the legislative court to pass the state’s ability to actively redistribute maps, which would create five Republican slant areas.

In California Gavin Newsom The response was to introduce one’s new map, which is beneficial to Democrats.

The move highlights how both sides engage in an active redistribution battle, with Republican-led states pushing maps to defend the Republican slim House, while Democrats seek to expand their strengths. Like most mid-terms after the new president’s election, 2026 is expected to be a referendum for the White House – raising concerns among Republicans that they may lose control of the room.

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New York State Government Kathy HochulIn her case, she vowed to explore the “every option” of the redrawn state line at a press conference earlier this month.

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“We’re in war.” Hawkel spoke with the Texas Democrat who fled to her state.